Martin Lücker

Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover^[1] and in Vienna with Anton Heiller,^[2] and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani.^[3] He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.^[1]

Since 1983, he has been organist of the main Protestant church of Frankfurt, the Katharinenkirche.^[1][4] He has been professor of Künstlerisches Orgelspiel und Methodik/Didaktik des Orgelunterrichtes (concert organ playing and didactic of teaching organ playing) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main since 1998.^[1] From August 2011 to 2016, he was also the conductor of the Figuralchor Frankfurt.^[1][3][5]

At the Katharinenkirche, he established two regular concert series. In "30 Minuten Orgelmusik" (30 minutes of organ music“, every Monday and Thursday at 4:30 pm he plays a 30-minute free concert; he played his 3000th concert in 2013.^[1][6] In "Musik in Sankt Katharinen" (Music in Saint Catharine's), he plays two organ concerts a month, played by himself and guests, and choral music with the Kantorei St. Katharinen.^[1]

In 2012, he played a concert at the historic Stumm organ of the Rheingauer Dom with a program that Albert Schweitzer had performed in Frankfurt in 1928 on a similar instrument that had been destroyed.^[7] He celebrated his 30th anniversary at the Katharinenkirche with a concert.^[8]

• Johann Sebastian Bach, Leipziger Spätwerke. Hänssler CD 92.100
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Eine Weimarer Tonleiter. Hänssler CD 92.091
• Das Frankfurter Orgelbuch, Sieben zeitgenössische Orgelstücke, Melisma MELI 7114-2
• Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Stanley and others with Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet) and Hartmut Friedrich (trombone). Capriccio 10483